Four weeks of blogging every day!
Hooray! Huzzah!
Don't worry, folks. I'll eventually stop making a big deal out of the fact that I haven't missed of day of blogging since I started. But for the moment, though, it's a big deal. For me to stick with something for this long is definitely cause for remark. My other blog will tell you why that is.
One of the things I've been finding interesting about this project is the process of writing a blog entry. Some days it's quick; other days it takes me a while.
I've been trying to streamline the process so I don't spend an inordinate chunk of my day just putting up a blog post. After all, I'm doing this every single day.
Usually what is do is fire up WriteMonkey so I have a nice clean screen to work with. Then I start typing. How much I type before switching to my web browser to look up something depends entirely on what I'm writing about. If it's a post like this one, where I'm just talking about the blog or reflecting on life in some manner, I can pretty much type out the whole thing in rough form without switching away from the typing screen.
If I'm writing about a movie, or a book, or a piece of software, I'll usually go to my web brower and call up IMDb or Google or the official website of whatever I'm writing about. That way I'll have a handy reference just an ALT-TAB away. Read the rest of this entry »
